The aid application must be made during the same period as the enrolment period for each cycle.
For the school year 24/25, Education has earmarked 9.5 million euros for school canteen grants.
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Tomorrow is the deadline for applying for school canteen subsidies for the 2024/2025 academic year
Tomorrow, by the call for applications published in BOIB no. 79 of 13 June, the deadline for applying for school canteen subsidies for the 2024/2025 academic year will open. This call for applications has a budget of 9.5 million euros, which represents an increase of 1.5 million euros compared to the previous call for applications.
The deadlines for processing the grants are the same as those for enrolment in each cycle. Thus, students in the first cycle of infant education have from tomorrow 19 June until 28 June to submit the application for the canteen subsidies and enrol. As for students in the second cycle of infant, primary and special education, the deadline for both procedures is from 24 June to 28 June. In the case of secondary schools, the deadline is from 26 June to 5 July.
The canteen subsidies are aimed at pupils from families who have difficulties in paying for the service due to their family’s economic situation, socio-family circumstances or difficulties in travelling to the school. This call for applications includes for the first time pupils between 16 and 21 years of age who are studying transition to adult life, and pupils who have completed basic special schooling and wish to continue their studies in those centres that offer these studies. The inclusion of pupils in transition to adult studies was a historical demand of the Federació d’Associacions d’Associacions de Famílies d’Alumnes (Federation of Pupils’ Families’ Associations) which has now been answered.
The aim of this aid is to finance the total or partial cost of the school canteen service for students who, during the 2024/2025 academic year, are studying infant education, primary education, compulsory secondary education (ESO), basic vocational training (FPB) or transition to adult life in non-university public schools dependent on the Regional Ministry of Education and Universities, or in subsidised private schools that offer compulsory studies, transition to adult life or the second cycle of infant education. The aim is also to encourage schooling and compensate pupils attending first cycle infant education centres.
During the 2023/2024 academic year, a total of 11,988 students attending schools in the Balearic Islands benefited from these grants, after the Ministry increased the initial 8 million euro allocation by 738,000 euros in order to be able to meet all the applications.